Scripts

A bunch of usefull automation scripts to run under Linux

search_for_a_file_in_archives.py

Script for a case-sensitive(!) file search inside archives. Requirements: libarchive(library and python package), rarfile. Script searches for archives recursively. The result of search will be a list of absolute paths to archives, that contains files matched your search (if any has been found).

1. Install the requirements:

sudo apt-get install libarchive-dev
sudo pip install libarchive rarfile

2. Run:

python search_for_a_file_in_archives.py <search_path> <search_pattern>

Special characters that can be used in a search pattern(Unix shell wildcard syntax):

* - matches everything
? - matches any single character
[seq] - matches any character in seq
[!seq] - matches any character not in seq

For a literal match, wrap the meta-characters in brackets. For example, '[?]' matches the character '?'

Examples:

python search_for_a_file_in_archives.py . *.txt
python search_for_a_file_in_archives.py /home/ README.md
python search_for_a_file_in_archives.py /home/ READ??.md
python search_for_a_file_in_archives.py /home/ READ[A-Z][A-Z].md
python search_for_a_file_in_archives.py /home/ READ[!A][!Z].md